Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati have agreed on the need to consolidate an agreement reached between the different parties to improve the government’s performance, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper said that both officials, who held talks in Ain el-Tineh on Tuesday, stressed the importance of giving a fresh impetus to the deal reached between the president, the speaker and the PM earlier in the month on the consolidation of the government’s work.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Norman Farrell submitted to the Trial Chamber a document revealing that the Lebanese authorities didn’t find any death certificates for the four suspects in the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.

“The prosecution asked the competent Lebanese authorities on May 25 to present any document, including death certificates, for any of the four accused,” Farrell said, according to An Nahar newspaper published on Wednesday.

The attacker of al-Jadeed TV, who was arrested after setting tires ablaze outside the station’s headquarters, is connected to the Hizbullah-linked Resistance Brigades and was part of a group planning another attack on Future TV station, security sources told several newspapers published Wednesday.

The preliminary investigation revealed that Wissam Alaeddine was tasked with burning tires and then throwing a Molotov cocktail on al-Jadeed headquarters in Beirut’s Wata al-Msaitbe to set it ablaze on Monday night.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati lauded the efforts exerted by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel to maintain stability amid the difficult situation the country is passing through.

“I hope this would be considered as the basis for fortifying the security situation in the long term,” Miqati told As Safir newspaper on Wednesday.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday condemned the attack on al-Jadeed television’s building, rejecting “the sectarian rhetoric from whichever side it comes” and blaming the incident on “the proliferation of illegal arms which is sponsored, protected and supervised by Hizbullah.”

“The use of the sectarian rhetoric, tools and expressions is rejected and condemned, from whichever side it comes, as our country needs a calm, reasonable and uniting rhetoric instead of insults and provocation,” the bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stressed on Tuesday the need for the security forces to intervene to contain the recent unrest in Lebanon.

He accused after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting “officials of being complicit in the unrest.”

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly held talks on Tuesday with Internal Security Forces chief General Ashraf Rifi on the security situation in Lebanon, said the U.S. Embassy in a statement.

She expressed the United States’ dedication to assist the ISF to develop into a modern professional police force that serves and protects all of Lebanon’s citizens.

Unknown assailants succeeded on Tuesday in robbing the Dbayeh branch of Banque Libano-Francaise, reported the National News Agency.

It said that a number of gunmen stormed the bank and opened fire in the air, creating panic among the customers and employees.

Two hand grenades and a landmine were found near Notre Dame Hospital in Jounieh, north of Beirut, media reports said Friday.

The grenades and the mine were discovered in a bucket, they said.

Imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah mosque Salafist cleric Ahmed al-Asir considered on Tuesday that the campaign against him by the Syrian regime and its allies is linked to his opposing stances.

“The allies of the Syrian regime are besieging me” by turning the Sunnis against him, he told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper.